At 11:08 14/01/2012 +0000, you wrote:
Does anyone know if it would be possible to reformat a WIN1_ partition on
a Qubide hard disk without losing the other partitions?
It looks like the member's WIN1_ has a corrupt directory, with repeated
spurious names in the DIR list which can't be deleted.
I had a very unusual problem like this, I had upgrade a PC for another
party, it had been online to link to his own contacts, after a short while
files were damaged and crazy directories were shown in Explorer, impossible
sizes,dates and names.
After lengthy enquiries to find info on possible virus no result.
I looked at some of windows own text files and came to realise that wrong
characters were always offset by 1 in the ASCI code. Some contact cleaner
to the HDD connectors and Bingo.
Alternatively, does anyone know of a way of removing a single complete
directory in cases like this?
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Though I never had an HDD in a QL setup I would presume that it would use
real directories rather than just very long file names. And in all
probability use a similar deletion method to that in the DOS world, meaning
ofcourse NONE, just an overwrite of the first char' of the name.
Suggest looking at the disk with a HEX editor, DISCED would do that for
floppies, must be somethong similar about for HDs.
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